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Michigan's Longest Garage Sale is an annual event that occurs along a 180-mile (290 km) stretch of U.S. Highway 12 from New Buffalo to Detroit, Michigan. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In 2022, 280 locations such as homes, farms, and businesses were registered and participating in the event. [ 3 ]
Genesee County (/ ˈ dʒ ɛ n ə s i / JEN-ə-see) is a county in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 Census, the population was 406,211, [1] making it the fifth-most populous county in Michigan, and the most populous in Mid Michigan. The county seat and population center is Flint (birthplace of General Motors). [2]
Flint is the largest city in Genesee County, Michigan, United States, and its county seat. Located along the Flint River 66 miles (106 km) northwest of Detroit, it is a principal city within the Mid Michigan region. [9] [10] Flint had a population of 81,252 at the 2020 census, [5] making it the 12th-most populous city in Michigan.
Roger & Me is a 1989 American documentary film written, produced, directed by, and starring Michael Moore, in his directorial debut.Moore portrays the regional economic impact of General Motors CEO Roger Smith's action of closing several auto plants in his hometown of Flint, Michigan, reducing GM's employees in that area from 80,000 in 1978 to about 50,000 in 1992.
The Dort Motor Car Company of Flint, Michigan, built automobiles from 1915 to 1924. The company was founded by Josiah Dallas Dort as a spinoff from the Durant-Dort Carriage Company , and produced vehicles at Durant-Dort Factory One until its dissolution.
Flint, Michigan is a city which previously relied on its automotive industry, and still does to an extent. Over the past several decades, General Motors plants in Genesee County have experienced re-namings, management shifts, openings, closures, reopenings, and spinoffs.
Durant-Dort Carriage Company was a manufacturer of horse-drawn vehicles in Flint, Michigan. Founded in 1886, by 1900 it was the largest carriage manufacturer in the country. Founded in 1886, by 1900 it was the largest carriage manufacturer in the country.
Buick City was a massive, vertically-integrated automobile manufacturing complex in northeast Flint, Michigan, which served the Buick home plant between 1904 and 1999. In the early 1980s, after major renovations were completed to better compete with Japanese producers, the plant was renamed to "Buick City".